After months of bipartisan collaboration studying the many legal aspects of implementing medical marijuana laws, last month lawmakers like Kansas Republican senator Rob Olson on the 2022 Special Committee on Medical Marijuana said that they have gathered all of the necessary information needed to try their hand at another medical marijuana bill.
He did get pushback from fellow Republican representative John Eplee, citing failed attempts in 2021.
“Do you think that with your input and oversight of the information we received during this interim, that we’ll at least have some pathway forward in the east chamber this year?” Eplee said. “Because that was a little bit of a disappointment, because we worked pretty hard in the House on trying to get this bill to you.”
In response, Olson is confident this new year will be different from past years because he feels that the new version of legislation is much better prepared.
“I think it’s going to be a great product,” Olson said. “I think it’s going to be much better than it was before. . . . We’re going to have almost every hole plugged.”
